Gurpreet Sidhu(II)
- Actor
- Talent Agent
Gurpreet sidhu was born at Queens medical hospital in
Nottingham. He was brought up in Normanton, Derby by his mother who has
been working as a beauty therapist for the last 28 years. He studied at
dale primary school and then went onto study at secondary school which
was called littleover community school in derby. Here he achieved 4
GCSEs at A*-C. His education continued at Mackworth College in derby
where he studied sport and achieved level 1-3. Furthermore he attended
the University of Derby to study BA (HONS) Sport and exercise studies
for 3 years and has graduated from this course recently. Gurpreet
wanted to become either a personal trainer or a sports nutritionist and
was considering doing further studying in order to achieve this. Also
he was always in between jobs to support himself. Whilst in between
jobs his friend suggested to him that he could do extra work in film
and television if he wanted extra money. Gurpreet had a good think
about this and decided to do extra work. He started to apply to extra
agencies that offered him representation and very quickly started
sending him out to work on mostly TV soaps. As gurpreet got into the
stride of doing extra work he thought to himself this is really
enjoyable and decided after 2 months that he definitely wanted to work
in the acting industry career wise. First of all he got some
professional headshots were taken followed by working on low budget and
student films to gain experience in front of the camera as well as
building up a show reel for directors to see. Along with this he also
joined the derby academy of acting to sharpen his acting skills through
acting classes. Joining acting school gave gurpreet a lot of confidence
and his shyness soon disappeared. As a result of this his performances
in projects that he was cast in were improving a great deal. So far
gurpreet's most notable work has been a short film called just talk to
me where he played the part of a radio presenter called Richard Malone.
This short film was screened at the five lamps short film competition
at the Quad cinema in derby in January 2013. He played the part of a
aggressive customer called Saj in the gritty crime drama 10 grams which
released on 31 May 2014 in the US on cable TV. 10 grams has been given
3 out of 5 star rating. Also on imdb, the film has been given a rating
of 8.4/10 as well as good reviews. 10 grams is due to release in the UK
very soon. Also playing the role of Salim khan in the short film
tainted love was an interesting and challenging role for gurpreet as it
required him to push his boundaries as an actor and it really boosted
his confidence in leaps and bounds. Tainted love is set to release soon
as well. Outside of acting, gurpreet currently has a part time job at
sky where he is a customer service advisor. He also likes to keep fit
by jogging and skipping as often as possible. Gurpreet will next be
working in the spooks feature film where he will be playing a car
driver. This film has kit Harington from game of thrones and peter
firth from spooks TV series as some of the films cast.